My favorite quotes and poems by Charles Bukowski: one of my favorite writers.

i don’t think i’m really happy yet and sometimes i think money will make me happy but does no money really make me unhappy? sometimes i want

They tell me I have an interesting life. Going places, seeing people, and I shrug my shoulders as I pour another drink, sitting lonely on my

I want to be a safe aura in a sea of worries and uncertainty. I want to stand for clarity where only chaos seems to grow.

You just have to learn to float with the current more, not fight against things. Change, movement, transitions ... you have to become one wi

No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself ...

I don’t think of other years, past or future, the mornings in the hallways, wanting someone to stay. anyone. I think nothing of that ...

Someone once said, “Get your heart real good broken and you’ll be a poet for the rest of your life”. I don’t actually know if someone ...

This morning I woke up to the sound of white rain shattering on my window. The raindrops kept falling like the sweetest music, leaving ...

6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was then or what day it is now. Blurred out lines from hangovers to coffee, another vagabond...

It could have been so beautiful. The way I was too young for my age to run away but still did because memories killed me like flashbacks, shot straight in th...

5am again, drunk on someone else’s love, or couch, and I’ve never felt more at home. I fled myself, from the life I’ve built because I’ve been inhabiting rou...

I am the way a life unfolds and blooms and seasons come and go and I am the way the spring always finds a way to turn even the coldest ...